Concrete binder and preservative.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON B. ARNOLD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONCRETE BINDER AND PRESERVATIVE.

1,047,481. Specification of Letters Patent Patented Dec. 17, 1912. No Drawing. Application filed .Tune 13, 1911. Serial No. 632,940.

To all whom it may concern: The thinners may consist of turpentine,

Be it known thatI, NELSON B. ARNOLD, a benzin or turpentine substitute, the oil may 50 citizen of the United States, and residing in be either China wood oil or linseed, the the borough of Brooklyn, Kings county, city driers may be lead or manganese oXids, and

and State of New York, have invented certhe lime is for the purpose of neutralizing tain new and useful Improvements in 0011- any acid in the composition. crete Binders and Preservatives. I practice I apply one mere coats 55 My invention consists of a composition to f h Vehicle Set f th above to the be used on cement or concrete constructions cement or concrete to b treated i to prevent dusting or surface disintein thoroughly dry, i f t t f 8116151011 Whlch are usually Caused y defec' to forty-eight hours. When the surface is tlve Settlngsdry one or more coats of the composition I have found that compositions containi th proportion f 5 parts f th i 2.; acld E answer the P p ments to 4:4: parts of the vehicle is applied satlsfactorily as disintegration occurs from and th ft there i be no d the action between the alkaline cement and or di i t ti f th Surface. the acids in the varnish and to that end I use neutral resins and a strong alkali to neutralize any small quantity of acid that might exist in any of the constituent parts.

The composition for my binder and preservative consists of a vehicle and pigments I am aware that a composition contaming highly acid resins has been used for the same purpose but my mixture has a very low acid figure and I am not aware that all the ingredients thereof have been used in the following proportions: f-

Pi ments 5 parts I chum: I I 25 Vehicle 44 parts The hereln described com osition of matter, consisting of non-acid East Indian The proportion of pigments constituting reslns, rosln, thinners, Oll, drlers, lime, ba-

the 56 parts of the composition is as follows: rium sulfate, zinc sulfid, zinc oXid, calcium 30 Barium sulfate n 48% sulfid, calclum carbonate and tints.

Zi lfid 1 2. The herein described composition of i i 13% matter for binding and preservlng concrete C l i lf t 7 or cement consisting of ,88% non-acid East C ki Carbonate 1 Ind1an re s1ns,4.4t0% ros1n, 21.56% thinners, 35 Ti t 3% 16.28% 011, .41% drlers, .4f1% lime, 26.88% barium sulfate, 10.08% zinc sulfid, 7.28%

100% zinc oxid, 8.92% calcium sulfate, 6.16% cal cium carbonate and 1.68% tints. In the vehlcle the constltuents are in the In Witness whereof, I have hereunto Set 40 followlng proportlons: my hand this 9 day of June, 1911.

Non-acid East Indian resins- 2% Rosin 10% NELSON B. ARNOLD. Thinners 49% Oil 37% Witnesses: 4.5 Driers 1% THEODORE T. LINES,

Lime 1% WILLIAM W. KAMIEN.

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